Conor Oberst Quotes
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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I was realizing, 'I work out all the time. Why can't I drop this weight?' It's really food. So I started dieting a little.
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I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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When the Argentine light cruiser Belgrano was hit by two torpedoes from the snout of Conqueror, a British hunter-killer, the enemy escort ships immediately gave chase. They were out of ideas after just five miles. The Royal Navy vessel had approached unseen, fired unseen, and simply disappeared.
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Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
